THE MAGIC OF CARBON CHEMISTRY
Carbon is so versatile and so important that the Royal Society of Chemistry call it the ‘King of the elements’. It’s everywhere, and we use it for everything.
Carbon sits at position six on the periodic table. It has six protons, six neutrons and six electrons. Two of those electrons fill up an electron shell close to the nucleus, while the other four sit in a half empty shell around the outside. These outer electrons, known as
